Senior Infrastructure Engineer Contract Job Trends in the UK excluding London

Senior Infrastructure Engineer
UK > UK excluding London

The median Senior Infrastructure Engineer daily rate in the UK excluding London is £550, according to job vacancies posted in the 6 months leading up to 20 December 2025.

The table below compares current contractor rates and summary statistics with the previous two years.

6 months to
20 Dec 2025
Same period 2024 Same period 2023
Rank 336 309 323
Rank change year-on-year -27 +14 +97
Contract jobs requiring a Senior Infrastructure Engineer 53 45 83
As % of all contract jobs in the UK excluding London 0.29% 0.30% 0.42%
As % of the Job Titles category 0.32% 0.33% 0.45%
Number of daily rates quoted 33 29 67
10th Percentile £413 £413 £406
25th Percentile £461 £450 £425
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £550 £575 £500
Median % change year-on-year -4.35% +15.00% -3.85%
75th Percentile £638 £675 £606
90th Percentile £700 - £665
UK median daily rate £550 £563 £500
% change year-on-year -2.22% +12.50% -9.09%
Number of hourly rates quoted 2 1 0
10th Percentile £71.20 - -
25th Percentile £73.00 - -
Median hourly rate £79.50 £60.00 -
Median % change year-on-year +32.50% - -
75th Percentile £84.50 - -
90th Percentile £85.40 - -
UK median hourly rate £79.50 £60.00 £70.00
% change year-on-year +32.50% -14.29% -

All Contract IT Job Vacancies
UK excluding London

For comparison with the information above, the following table provides summary statistics for all contract IT job vacancies in the UK excluding London. Most job vacancies include a discernible job title that can be normalized. As such, the figures in the second row provide an indication of the number of contract jobs in our overall sample.

Contract vacancies in the UK excluding London with a recognized job title 16,378 13,796 18,336
% of contract IT jobs with a recognized job title 90.06% 92.40% 93.52%
Number of daily rates quoted 10,052 8,232 11,988
10th Percentile £213 £213 £213
25th Percentile £369 £363 £380
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £475 £488 £500
Median % change year-on-year -2.56% -2.50% -
75th Percentile £575 £588 £600
90th Percentile £675 £680 £688
UK median daily rate £500 £525 £525
% change year-on-year -4.76% - -4.55%
Number of hourly rates quoted 1,657 784 1,199
10th Percentile £13.85 £15.48 £14.36
25th Percentile £17.48 £20.29 £18.50
Median hourly rate £25.15 £32.50 £45.00
Median % change year-on-year -22.62% -27.78% +82.48%
75th Percentile £57.50 £64.50 £65.00
90th Percentile £70.00 £71.25 £77.50
UK median hourly rate £25.15 £33.50 £45.00
% change year-on-year -24.93% -25.56% +50.00%

Senior Infrastructure Engineer
Job Vacancy Trend in the UK excluding London

Historical trend showing the proportion of contract IT job postings featuring 'Senior Infrastructure Engineer' in the job title relative to all contract IT jobs advertised in the UK excluding London.

Senior Infrastructure Engineer job vacancy trend in the UK excluding London

Senior Infrastructure Engineer
Daily Rate Trend in the UK excluding London

Contractor daily rate distribution trend for Senior Infrastructure Engineer job vacancies in the UK excluding London.

Contractor daily rate distribution trend for Senior Infrastructure Engineer job vacancies in the UK excluding London

Senior Infrastructure Engineer
Daily Rate Histogram in the UK excluding London

Daily rate distribution for jobs citing Senior Infrastructure Engineer in the UK excluding London over the 6 months to 20 December 2025.

Daily rate histogram for Senior Infrastructure Engineer in the UK excluding London

Senior Infrastructure Engineer
Hourly Rate Trend in the UK excluding London

Contractor hourly rate distribution trend for Senior Infrastructure Engineer job vacancies in the UK excluding London.

Contractor hourly rate distribution trend for Senior Infrastructure Engineer job vacancies in the UK excluding London

Senior Infrastructure Engineer
Contract Job Locations in the UK excluding London

The table below looks at the demand and provides a guide to the median contractor rates quoted in IT jobs citing Senior Infrastructure Engineer within the UK excluding London region over the 6 months to 20 December 2025. The 'Rank Change' column provides an indication of the change in demand within each location based on the same 6 month period last year.

Location Rank Change
on Same Period
Last Year
Matching
Contract
IT Job Ads
Median
Daily Rate
Past 6 Months
Median Daily Rate
% Change
on Same Period
Last Year
Live
Jobs
South East -20 14 £419 -27.17% 15
North of England -39 13 £588 -6.00% 7
North West -17 11 £613 -2.00% 6
South West -2 10 £700 +21.74% 12
East of England -15 9 £550 +29.41% 2
West Midlands -25 6 £700 - 5
Midlands -33 6 £700 - 7
Wales +3 4 £550 -21.43%
Scotland -1 3 £575 +27.78% 4
Yorkshire - 2 £400 - 1
Senior Infrastructure Engineer
UK

Senior Infrastructure Engineer Skill Set
Top 30 Co-Occurring Skills & Capabilities in the UK excluding London

For the 6 months to 20 December 2025, Senior Infrastructure Engineer contract job roles required the following skills and capabilities in order of popularity. The figures indicate the absolute number of co-occurrences and as a proportion of all contract job ads across the UK excluding London region featuring Senior Infrastructure Engineer in the job title.

1 52 (98.11%) Infrastructure Engineering
2 28 (52.83%) Windows
3 24 (45.28%) Active Directory
4 22 (41.51%) Microsoft
5 21 (39.62%) Security Cleared
6 20 (37.74%) Azure
6 20 (37.74%) VMware
7 19 (35.85%) SC Cleared
8 17 (32.08%) DNS
9 16 (30.19%) VMware Infrastructure
10 15 (28.30%) PowerShell
11 13 (24.53%) Linux
12 12 (22.64%) DHCP
12 12 (22.64%) Firewall
12 12 (22.64%) Windows Server
13 11 (20.75%) Python
14 10 (18.87%) CI/CD
14 10 (18.87%) Entra ID
14 10 (18.87%) Hyper-V
15 9 (16.98%) AWS
15 9 (16.98%) Google
15 9 (16.98%) Google Workspace
15 9 (16.98%) TCP/IP
15 9 (16.98%) Terraform
16 8 (15.09%) Ansible
16 8 (15.09%) Bash
16 8 (15.09%) Docker
16 8 (15.09%) Infrastructure as Code
17 7 (13.21%) Azure Certification
17 7 (13.21%) DevOps

Senior Infrastructure Engineer Skill Set
Co-Occurring Skills & Capabilities in the UK excluding London by Category

The following tables expand on the one above by listing co-occurrences grouped by category. They cover the same employment type, locality and period, with up to 20 co-occurrences shown in each category:

Application Platforms
1 6 (11.32%) Microsoft Exchange
2 3 (5.66%) Exchange Server 2010
3 2 (3.77%) Apache
3 2 (3.77%) IIS
3 2 (3.77%) iPlanet
3 2 (3.77%) JBoss
3 2 (3.77%) WebSphere
3 2 (3.77%) WebSphere Application Server
Cloud Services
1 20 (37.74%) Azure
2 10 (18.87%) Entra ID
3 9 (16.98%) AWS
3 9 (16.98%) Google Workspace
4 7 (13.21%) Microsoft 365
4 7 (13.21%) SaaS
5 6 (11.32%) Azure Stack
6 4 (7.55%) AWS CloudFormation
7 2 (3.77%) Amazon CloudWatch
7 2 (3.77%) Amazon EC2
7 2 (3.77%) Amazon ELB
7 2 (3.77%) Amazon S3
7 2 (3.77%) Azure DevOps
7 2 (3.77%) IaaS
7 2 (3.77%) OpenShift
7 2 (3.77%) PaaS
7 2 (3.77%) Virtual Private Cloud
8 1 (1.89%) Azure Sentinel
8 1 (1.89%) GCP
8 1 (1.89%) OneDrive
Communications & Networking
1 17 (32.08%) DNS
2 12 (22.64%) DHCP
2 12 (22.64%) Firewall
3 9 (16.98%) TCP/IP
4 3 (5.66%) VPN
5 2 (3.77%) Fibre Channel
5 2 (3.77%) iSCSI
5 2 (3.77%) Kerberos
5 2 (3.77%) Network Security
5 2 (3.77%) SSL
5 2 (3.77%) VLAN
6 1 (1.89%) BIG-IP
6 1 (1.89%) Cisco Nexus
6 1 (1.89%) Ethernet VPN
6 1 (1.89%) F5 BIG-IP LTM
6 1 (1.89%) NAS
6 1 (1.89%) OSPF
6 1 (1.89%) SAN
6 1 (1.89%) VXLAN
6 1 (1.89%) Wireless
Database & Business Intelligence
1 2 (3.77%) Oracle Database
1 2 (3.77%) SAP HANA
1 2 (3.77%) SQL Server
Development Applications
1 4 (7.55%) Git
1 4 (7.55%) GitLab
1 4 (7.55%) Jenkins
2 2 (3.77%) Bitbucket Server
2 2 (3.77%) CA Release Automation
2 2 (3.77%) Sonatype Nexus
3 1 (1.89%) JIRA
General
1 6 (11.32%) Public Sector
2 5 (9.43%) Social Skills
3 4 (7.55%) Aerospace
3 4 (7.55%) Documentation Skills
4 3 (5.66%) Finance
5 2 (3.77%) Local Government
5 2 (3.77%) Military
6 1 (1.89%) Inclusion and Diversity
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 3 (5.66%) OAuth
1 3 (5.66%) SAML
2 2 (3.77%) LDAP
2 2 (3.77%) OpenID
2 2 (3.77%) REST
3 1 (1.89%) OAuth2
Miscellaneous
1 13 (24.53%) Hybrid Cloud
2 9 (16.98%) PKI
3 3 (5.66%) Data Centre
4 2 (3.77%) Clustering
4 2 (3.77%) Digital Signage
5 1 (1.89%) FlexPod
5 1 (1.89%) Legacy Systems
5 1 (1.89%) Replication
Operating Systems
1 28 (52.83%) Windows
2 13 (24.53%) Linux
3 12 (22.64%) Windows Server
4 3 (5.66%) Windows Server 2012
4 3 (5.66%) Windows Server 2016
4 3 (5.66%) Windows Server 2019
5 2 (3.77%) SUSE
5 2 (3.77%) SUSE Linux Enterprise Server
5 2 (3.77%) Unix
5 2 (3.77%) VMS
6 1 (1.89%) Windows 10
Processes & Methodologies
1 52 (98.11%) Infrastructure Engineering
2 10 (18.87%) CI/CD
3 8 (15.09%) Infrastructure as Code
4 7 (13.21%) DevOps
4 7 (13.21%) Infrastructure Automation
4 7 (13.21%) Infrastructure Management
4 7 (13.21%) Mobile Device Management
5 6 (11.32%) DevSecOps
5 6 (11.32%) Platform Engineering
5 6 (11.32%) User Experience
5 6 (11.32%) Zero Trust
6 5 (9.43%) Cybersecurity
6 5 (9.43%) SIEM
7 4 (7.55%) Benchmarking
7 4 (7.55%) Disaster Recovery
7 4 (7.55%) High Availability
7 4 (7.55%) Identity Access Management
7 4 (7.55%) Migration
7 4 (7.55%) Task Automation
7 4 (7.55%) Technical Leadership
Programming Languages
1 15 (28.30%) PowerShell
2 11 (20.75%) Python
3 8 (15.09%) Bash
4 2 (3.77%) Groovy
4 2 (3.77%) Shell Script
5 1 (1.89%) SQL
Qualifications
1 21 (39.62%) Security Cleared
2 19 (35.85%) SC Cleared
3 7 (13.21%) Azure Certification
4 6 (11.32%) Network+ Certification
5 4 (7.55%) AWS Certification
5 4 (7.55%) Microsoft Certification
6 3 (5.66%) AWS Certified Solutions Architect
6 3 (5.66%) CompTIA Security+
6 3 (5.66%) VMware Certified Professional (VCP)
7 1 (1.89%) CCNA
7 1 (1.89%) Cisco Certification
7 1 (1.89%) CISM
7 1 (1.89%) CISSP
7 1 (1.89%) Computer Science Degree
7 1 (1.89%) Degree
7 1 (1.89%) DV Cleared
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 2 (3.77%) Cyber Essentials
2 1 (1.89%) GDPR
2 1 (1.89%) ISO/IEC 27001
System Software
1 24 (45.28%) Active Directory
2 16 (30.19%) VMware Infrastructure
3 10 (18.87%) Hyper-V
4 8 (15.09%) Docker
5 3 (5.66%) Sendmail
6 2 (3.77%) Tivoli Directory Server
6 2 (3.77%) VMware ESXi
6 2 (3.77%) vSphere
Systems Management
1 9 (16.98%) Terraform
2 8 (15.09%) Ansible
3 6 (11.32%) Single Sign-On
4 5 (9.43%) Kubernetes
5 3 (5.66%) Microsoft Data Protection Manager
5 3 (5.66%) Microsoft Intune
5 3 (5.66%) vCenter Server
6 2 (3.77%) CA Single Sign-On
6 2 (3.77%) CA Wily
6 2 (3.77%) Progress Chef
6 2 (3.77%) SCCM
6 2 (3.77%) Tivoli
7 1 (1.89%) Active Directory Federation Services
7 1 (1.89%) Cisco CUCM
7 1 (1.89%) VxRail
7 1 (1.89%) WSUS
Vendors
1 22 (41.51%) Microsoft
2 20 (37.74%) VMware
3 9 (16.98%) Google
4 5 (9.43%) Veeam
5 3 (5.66%) Citrix
5 3 (5.66%) F5
5 3 (5.66%) Palo Alto
6 2 (3.77%) AppDynamics
6 2 (3.77%) Broadcom
6 2 (3.77%) CheckPoint
6 2 (3.77%) Cisco
6 2 (3.77%) HP
6 2 (3.77%) IBM
6 2 (3.77%) Oracle
6 2 (3.77%) SAP
6 2 (3.77%) ServiceNow
6 2 (3.77%) Splunk
6 2 (3.77%) Wyse
7 1 (1.89%) Dell
7 1 (1.89%) Qualys